Family of 4 attempts suicide

SURAT: Having run into heavy debt, a family of a textile trader attempted suicide on Wednesday in Limbayat area of the city. They were saved and are being treated.

Sources said that Sandip Bansal, a sari trader in Textile market was found in a semi-conscious condition in his bedroom at Vatika township in Limbayat by his wife. He told her that he had consumed poison meant to kill rats as he was under heavy debt. Hearing this, his wife Minoo Bansal woke up their 10-year-old daughter Pooja and 8-year-old son Nikunj. She first made them drink the poison and then gulped it herself.

Hearing frequent noises of the family members throwing up, the neighbours informed their relatives who in turn rushed them to a hospital.

Sources said that the police even recorded the dying declaration of the couple. Police inspector AD Rajput said, "Sandip did not mention how much debt he had taken. Once he gets well we will record detailed statements."